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sceletal

sceletal is the obsolete form of skeletal.

Meaning of skeletal

Adjective

skeletal (comparative more skeletal, superlative most skeletal)

  1. of, or relating to the skeleton
  2. haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
  3. barebones, lacking elaboration
    • On the whole, Sidney Morris has given us sketchy characters that need more fine tuning than this production […] could give it. Only Holmberg seemed to dig deeply within himself to create a complete character from Morris' skeletal outline.1983 August 20, Penny Landau, “The Reality Around Us: Two Gay Plays”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 17
  4. Comprising only the base structure of a building, etc.
    • After the bombing, only the skeletal remains of the city could be seen.

See all 5 meanings of skeletal

Forms of sceletal

comparativemore sceletal
superlativemost sceletal

Origin of sceletal

From sceleton + -al.

Questions about sceletal

What is sceletal the obsolete form of?
Sceletal is the obsolete form of skeletal.

Words near sceletal in the dictionary

  1. scelerophobes
  2. scelerophobia
  3. scelerous
  4. scelestic
  5. scelet
  6. sceletal
  7. sceleton
  8. sceletons
  9. scelets
  10. scelidate
  11. scelidosaur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sceletal (page history and authors); skeletal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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